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Hide reports or pages to users
Apologies that was bit of a rubbish explanation
When you deploy/save a PBIX form PBI Desktop you get to browse the folders on your PBI-ReportServer.
You can create folders on your PBI-ReportServer using the web front end. Usually http:\\yourservername\Reports\
You could create a folder called MyReportSubjectArea and then inside that folder create another folder called MyReportSubjectAreaSuperUsers. You can set security at folder level so restrict the MyReportSubjectArea folder to your main users and MyReportSubjectAreaSuperUsers to the more restricted set o users (we use AD groups to do this as it's way easier to add people to AD groups than adding and removing individual users via the SSRS web front end. (SSRS is the underlying server tech for PBI-ReportServer)
If you don't have any permissions on a folder you don't see it and can't access the contents even if someone sends you a link.
This page is about configuring SSRS security
Sorry that was obviously a poor explanation. I can't produce a more detailed guide with screen shots at the moment as I'm no longer working with PBI on premise at my new company and haven't got access to an instance here.
It's basically the same as SSSR server so these two links should point you in the right direction.
http://www.andrewmosey.com/hiding-ssrs-folders-from-users
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2E6B3TTUYg
The video is an older version of SSRS so looks pretty different but the fucntionality/approach is the same.
This is all about the users on the PBI ReportServer. So you need to log on as that user on a client machine and browse to the PBI ReportServer as that user to see the effect. If you're an admin on the PBI Report Server you get to see pretty much everything all the time.
regards
Steve
We actually use AD groups for this. So we assign the AD group to the role in SSRS/PBI-SSRS and then assign users into the AD group. But for testing it using a specific user login will work. It just gets difficult to maintain with lots of user